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This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: Portland Monthly, a glossy niche mag beloved by I-26 Silicon Forest types, have put together a nice little piece on 5 PDX roasters not named Stumptown. Locally,…

This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: SO HOT RIGHT NOW: Espresso Parts has just unveiled this limited edition La Marzocco Tamper – with the heraldic lion of Florence burned to the side of…

This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: The Mission’s finest coffee roaster, Four Barrel Coffee, turned two yesterday. To celebrate, Four Barrel offered free drinks all day and had pony rides, a photo booth…

This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: Tonx Konecny is unequivocally our favorite source for artful West Coast coffee photography, and his latest Flickr set proves why. Check out these gorgeous shots of the newly opened Paper or…

Santa Cruz based Verve Coffee Roasters just released Mama Cata Estate 2010 honey-processed Geisha. Although we personally haven’t had a chance to taste this coffee, all reports from those who have agree: this coffee is caps lock DELICIOUS and…

This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: The Quaker Oats Company, an American carbohydrate concern with more than a hundred years of brand-recognition, have recently introduced the “True Delights: Hazelnut Latte” flavor to their line of…

This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: Just about a year ago, in the heady early days of Sprudge.com, our very best puns and yuks were more often than not fueled by Aida Batlle’s…

This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: Ladies and gentlemen, there’s geekery and then there is geekery. Portafilter.net has just published a terrific set of equations for the MojoToGo set. Probably would’ve sounded really…

This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sometimes we Americans express this freedom and bravery by throwing scalding hot coffee in…

Café owners take note: this Wendy’s training video from the early 90s is inspirational, thoughtful and completely brilliant. Sprudge want to see more coffee videos like this. Can you imagine Espresso Vivace’s David Schomer doing a slow-groove tamp posture demo?…

Welcome! Sit down! SIT DOWN! Here at William J. Sprudge Junior High, we hope you’ve had a productive summer. You may notice a few changes going on around you; Junior High is a funny time like that. All we ask…

Sad news trickling into Sprudge HQ late Friday afternoon… ATHENS, Greece: The Grecian Frappé Council, a consortium of like-minded frappé enthusiasts based in Athens, have announced the discontinuation of their high profile International Frappé Week program. A member of the…

This picture was recently posted on Hacienda La Esmeralda’s Facebook Wall. It’s beautiful and mysterious. The man responsible for posting the image, Steven Sung-Yong Kil, hasn’t responded to our requests for more information and doesn’t want to be our…

What’s the one thing held in common between James Hoffmann, former WBC champ and don of Square Mile Roasters, and the character Tevye from “Fiddler on the Roof”? Both men have thoughts on the concept of tradition. From JimSeven.com: I’m a little conflicted…

Giorgio’s latest attack on American Espresso has sent us over the top. He visited four shops in NYC (Abaço, Café Grumpy, Ninth Street Espresso and Stumptown) with Salon.com and poo-pooed every shot of espresso. So the darkly suave Milos…

As Whitney Houston once said: “Oh, my Lord, I have waited for this day.” We’ve been busy all week at Sprudge Labs, burning through four Vita-Mix blenders and two BlendTecs to bring you the caps lock PERFECT Third Wavé…